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Mendip District Council - Information on the area and services provided.
Flora, Fauna and Scenery of the West Mendips - Features photographic galleries of scenery, wild flowers and wildlife and limited local information.
Local History of Loxton Village - Includes family trees of local people and parish records.
Mendip Society - Care for the Mendip Hills and run an extensive programme of walks, talks and visits. Includes aims, contacts, events, issues, photos, newsletter, grants, publications, and membership information.
Mendip Life - Online edition of free quarterly magazine including news, events and features covering the Mendips.
Mendip Hills AONB and Charterhouse Centre - Describes the landscape, geology, wildlife, heritage, agriculture and forestry of the area together with details of the management partnership and wardens. Includes information about their operational and activity base, the Charterhouse Centre.
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Mencken "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Mendip You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Mendip Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Mendip "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Mendip Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Mendip Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Mendip Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Mendip "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Mendip "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard Mendip Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow Mendip When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Mendip They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Mendip Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Mendip Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Mendip Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Mendip
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